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moving to opportunity

And why do they always suggest the most farcically small tweaks to the existing system? […] Union organization, systematic racial uplift, pulling entire communities out of poverty — that’s not on the agenda. If you are mired down in a poor urban neighborhood, the solution isn’t to make your neighborhood less poor, it’s to rig the education system so that the handful of talented people can figure out a way to get into the “best” school. This is why, for example, the current state of affairs could produce the first black president and still be such a rolling disaster for the black community. It’s not about building communities, it’s about giving people a chance to escape communities. It’s brain-drain as social justice.

From Adam Kotsko (2016), “Out of love — who could credit it? — out of love for the entrepreneur!” at An und für sich: https://itself.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/out-of-love-who-could-credit-it-out-of-love-for-the-entrepreneur/